Hyundai N Vision 74 goes on sale… as a remote-controlled electric car
The desires of automotive enthusiasts for Hyundai to put its radical N Vision 74 concept car into production have been met – just not on the scale many desire.
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The desires of automotive enthusiasts for Hyundai to put its radical N Vision 74 concept car into production have been met – just not on the scale many desire.
In the fall of 2020, bored and restless in Covid-restricted Spain, Ángel Guerra doodled a dream car. The automotive designer, then 38, wanted to make a tribute to his first four-wheeled love: the time-traveling DeLorean DMC-12 that rolled out of a cloud of steam in Back to the Future. The sketch that took shape on Guerra’s computer had all the iconic elements of the 1980s original—gull-wing doors, stainless-steel cladding, louver blades over the rear window, a rakish black side stripe—plus a few modern touches. Guerra smoothed out the folded-paper angles, widened the body, stretched the wheel arches to accommodate bigger rims and tires. After two weeks, he decided he liked this new DeLorean enough to stick it on Instagram.
The death of America's not-so-big fourth automaker, AMC, is an oft-forgotten turning turning point for the U.S. car industry. Among other things, it handed Jeep to Chrysler, which wouldn't be where it is today without the Cherokee and Wrangler. But for everything we car fans gain, we forfeit something in return, and what we lost would've been one of AMC's coolest performance cars ever—a rebadged Renault Alpine GTA Turbo called the AMC GTA USA. [Eagle screeching in distance]
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A classic car used in actor Steve McQueen’s final film is up for grabs after sitting in a barn for nearly 40 years.
Two Tesla Cybertruck owners voiced their concerns over their discovery that their expensive electric trucks had quickly developed «corrosion» and «orange rust marks.»
Some Tesla owners claim their Cybertrucks are starting to rust after being caught in the rain.
On the first day of the year, the hallowed R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R became legal to import to the United States. The film-famous Skyline was the last great performance car that Japan reserved for itself, with subsequent hits like the Honda S2000 and Subaru Impreza WRX STI sold globally. There will never again be another JDM import milestone this significant—not just because of how popular the R34 is, but because it heralds the end of cheap Japanese classic cars.